1860 in literature

1860 in literature
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The year 1860 in literature involved some significant new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 Drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

January - First issue of the Cornhill Magazine
June 9 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
Fyodor Dostoevsky returns to St Petersburg.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon meets her future husband John Maxwell.
Alexander Bain is appointed to the chair of logic and English literature at the University of Aberdeen.
The Univers religieux is suppressed by the French government.
Samuel Wilberforce and Thomas Huxley debate the theories of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
The first Vanity Fair magazine is published in the USA.

New books

R M Ballantyne -The Dog Crusoe
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
Edmond & Jules de Goncourt - Charles Demailly
Nathaniel Hawthorne - The Marble Faun
Mor Jokai - Poor Rich
George Meredith - Evan Harrington
Multatuli - Max Havelaar
R. M. Potter - The Fall of the Alamo
Charles Reade - The Cloister and the Hearth
Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Hopes and Fears
- Kenneth

Drama

Dion Boucicault - The Colleen Bawn

Poetry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Paul Revere's Ride

Non-fiction

Eugène Crepet - Poètes francais; Les Paradis artificiels: opium et haschisch
Ralph Waldo Emerson - The Conduct of Life
Gray's Anatomy, 2nd edition
John Ruskin - Modern Painters IV

Births

January 10 - Charles G.D. Roberts, poet (+ 1943)
January 29 - Anton Chekhov (+ 1904)
February 11 - Rachilde (Marguerite Vallette-Eymery), French author (+ 1953)
May 9 - J. M. Barrie, novelist and dramatist (+ 1937)
June 6 - William Ralph Inge, theologian
July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, novelist and short story writer (+ 1935)
September 13 - Ralph Connor, Canadian novelist (+ 1937)
September 14 - Hamlin Garland (+ 1940)
October 23 - Molly Elliot Seawell (+ 1916)
December 11 - Leonard Huxley, writer and editor, father of Aldous Huxley
date unknown - Harriet Theresa Comstock, children's author

Deaths

January 29 - Ernst Moritz Arndt, poet
February 9 - William Evans Burton, dramatist
February 25 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, lexicographer
May 9 - Samuel Griswold Goodrich, children's author (Peter Parley)
May 16 - Annabella Byron, 11th Baroness Wentworth, wife of Lord Byron
May 23 - Albert Richard Smith, journalist and humorist
August 25
- Christian Lobeck, classical scholar
- Johan Ludvig Heiberg, poet
September 21 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher
December 2 - Ferdinand Christian Baur, theologian

Awards

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